The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

What's measured improves